Two Lives

Returning to the home where he was traumatically taken into foster care as a young child, Gavigan is on a journey of discovery about his late mother and, indeed, about himself.

Natasha, though from a different rung of the social ladder, also comes from a challenging upbringing comprising of a loving, but absent, father and a mother who is emotionally remote.

Set during the period of the post Celtic Tiger crash, Two Lives is a story of two peoples’ efforts to overcome adversity. Can they succeed? As with his previous novel The Boy In The Gap, Paul Soye explores these issues with sensitivity, assuredness and skill.

Praise for Paul Soye’s The Boy In The Gap

‘A beautifully written book, clear and unadorned; the story of a hidden Ireland’ Michael Harding

‘Soye has his own independent style that is as enthralling as it is absorbing … Let’s hope that this writer’s ink never stops flowing’ Des Kenny

‘A beautifully written, heartfelt account of a family torn apart. There are echoes of John McGahern in the elegiac evocation of a rural community in the west of Ireland’  Shirley Kelly, Books Ireland.